To call it a grilling would be unfair to fried fish. It was a soft-centre velvet-glove exchange between decent establishment chaps which only confirmed just how feeble and inadequate the present system of so-called oversight of the security services really is. As spy chiefs came before parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), it is incredible […]
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This week’s spooks hearing proves urgent need for independent inquiry
Nov 9th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.If only we had a government we could trust, we should offer Edward Snowden asylum
Jul 15th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Instead of pursuing Edward Snowden to the ends of the earth, as the US is doing, we should be lauding him for the huge service he has done us at enormous risk to himself. He has revealed the nature of our State and the security services which every citizen of the UK needs to […]